Today is officially the last day of my maternity leave. I am a wreck! I can't believe that on Monday I am 1) leaving Emma in the care of "strangers" and 2) going to be away from Emma for 9 hours or so. Holy cow -- I don't think I've been away from her for more than three or four hours yet. Of course, I'm beyond sad. But I also feel a guilty since a part of me is excited to go back to work and to get a little bit of my before baby life back. Ugh. You know when you're on vacation and you're sad to leave but excited to go home at the same time? Well, it kind of feels like that. The good thing is that when you're on vacation, you usually have to leave behind whatever it is about the place you visited that makes you happy. In my case, Emma (the best thing about my maternity leave, obviously) will still be there at the end of the day.
She'll be OK, right? And I'll be OK too?
4 comments:
You'll be FINE. If mama aint' happy, aint' NOBODY happy. You are a fantastic mother. Guilt not.
Great advice from Maureen- I second that!
You can do it!
My sister said it best, If you didn't worry, there would be something wrong.. You're a great Mom and it's okay to worry. It's going to be tough to get adjusted to but it will be good for everybody. Emma's great and she's still going to be great. Just think how special those big smiles from Emma are going to be. I'm proud of you and love you very much.
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